使用Javascript的Twitter API

Question

im looking to make for a Twitter API that shows a certain term lets say "cheese" to appear on a html webpage showing a list of the latests tweets that mentioned cheese and is updated so any new tweets using cheese appear in the list. Can anyone help me on doing this. I know people will suggest PHP but i only want to use Javascript.

Answer 1

I suggest you to use node-twitter npm package, which should significantly simplify the task. Link here

You can use it as follows ( nodeJS code follows):

 import Twitter from 'twitter'; var client = new Twitter({ consumer_key: keys.consumer_key, consumer_secret: keys.consumer_secret, access_token_key: keys.access_token_key, access_token_secret: keys.access_token_secret }); module.exports.getLatestTweetsByHashtag = function(hashtags, callback){ //here hashtags is an array in the form: [#cheese, #bacon] var hashtagsToString = hashtags.join(" "); var encodedHashtags = encodeURIComponent(hashtags).replace(/%20/g, '+'); client.get('search/tweets.json', { q: encodedHashtags, result_type: 'recent', include_entities: true }, function(error, tweets, response) { if (error) return callback(error); else return callback(undefined, tweets.statuses); }); } 

The result can be retrieved from the method using callback (feel free to 'promisify` it if you wish)

Use as follows:

 require('./my-twitter-module').getLatestTweetsByHashtag(['#cheese'], function(err, tweets){ //do error handling //pass it back to client side, tweets are already json object res.json(tweets); }); 

This will give you the list of most recents tweets containing all of the hashtags included in the array

EDIT In case if you are looking for streaming API implementation:

 client.stream('statuses/filter', {track: 'cheese'}, function(stream) { stream.on('data', function(tweet) { console.log(tweet.text); }); stream.on('error', function(error) { throw error; }); });